Speech #810188931

The substitute bill retains the IRO definition of displaced person and the present administrative framework for processing displaced persons. In that respect the substitute bill differs from the socalled committee bill or the McCarran bill. The Displaced Persons Commission would continue to perform the basic function of determining the displacedperson status of prospective immigrants. and the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the consular service would continue to check for conformity with all normal immigration regulations. I agree that great care should be taken in the screening of prospective displacedperson immigrants. and I believe the Displaced Persons Commission is alert to the importance of such screening. The substitute bill strengthens the prohibitions against the admission of Communists. revolutionaries. and subversives. The substitute bill also eliminates the two unfair and unworkable requirements that 40 percent of those admitted be from areas de facto annexed by the Soviet Union. and that 30 percent of them be agricultural workers.